Letters to a Savage

De: Zachary Shadoan

Narrado por: Ryan Welch

Letters to a Savage follows the epic tale of Spanish conquistador, Rodrigo Diaz, during the fall of the Aztec Empire. Rodrigo becomes disillusioned with the Spanish cause and falls in love with Atzi, a beautiful young Aztec woman.

Betrayed and left to die, Rodrigo must navigate his way through an uncertain and intriguing new world as the countrymen from his old life come to destroy what he has come to love.

©2022 Zachary Shadoan (P)2025 Zachary Shadoan

Utterly depressing and filled with unending hopelessness

I honestly do not know what to say. I admire the author’s optimism in thinking the readers would want to hear more of these characters and their hopeless story, but there is nothing about this book that was even slightly enjoyable. Told through a series of letters oddly from several perspectives, readers are dragged through a series of hopeless acts of violence and depravity until the book finally ends…with more violence and hopelessness.

The narrator doesn’t do the book any favors either, being very monotone throughout.

I wanted to like this book, I wanted to support a local author, but please accept my sincere apology…I honestly did not enjoy this at all.